Amazon.com Services LLC

Research Science, north america stores

Sr.ResearchScientist,PricingScience

$159–215k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Sr. Research Scientist, Pricing Science at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Machine learning, Predictive modeling, Optimization. Design machine learning models. Develop machine learning models”

What You'll Achieve.

Accretive Gross Contribution; Customer Pricing Perception

Industry & Context.

Research Science, north america stores
Problems you'll solve

Problem formulation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years investigating scientific principles, Master's degree and 5+ years quantitative research, Experience with big data technologies, Experience communicating research findings

Nice to Have

Experience converting research studies to changes, Experience with discrete optimization, Experience with continuous optimization

What You'll Do.

Design machine learning models

Develop machine learning models

Deploy machine learning models

Evaluate models offline

Launch models in production

Develop models for scale

Develop evaluation frameworks

Design optimization systems

Improve optimization systems

Automate price decisions

Automate promotion decisions

Apply foundation models

Enrich product representations

Extract competitive signals

Build pricing systems

Build explainable systems

Design causal inference studies

Execute causal inference studies

Measure business impact

Measure customer impact

Translate findings to improvements

Track advances in causal ML

Track advances in multi-objective optimization

Track advances in generative AI

Track advances in demand modeling

Identify application opportunities

Contribute to scientific vision

Set competitive prices

Preserve price perception

Balance profitability

Balance customer trust

Balance marketplace health

Full Job Description

Amazon's Worldwide Pricing & Promotions organization is seeking a talented, hands-on Research Scientist to join the Pricing and Promotion Optimization Science (P2OS) team — the optimization "application layer" within Amazon's Pricing Sciences organization. Amazon adjusts prices on hundreds of millions of products daily across a global marketplace; P2OS is the team that makes those prices optimal. P2OS is a small, specialized unit with an outsized charter: develop and maintain the models that determine optimal prices and promotions across Amazon's catalog and merchant programs. We own the full optimization stack — from price prediction to promotion targeting to competitiveness guardrails — and we measure success in terms of accretive Gross Contribution and Customer Pricing Perception (GCCP). Our work spans Retail Core, Amazon Business, Fresh, Grocery, and international marketplaces, and we are continually investing in more extensible, generalizable science foundations to keep pace with a growing and evolving business. We are looking for an innovative, organized, and customer-focused scientist with exceptional machine learning and predictive modeling skills, causal and experimental evaluation experience, and the entrepreneurial spirit to apply state-of-the-art methods to some of the most impactful pricing problems in e-commerce. You should be comfortable with ambiguity, motivated by measurable business impact, and excited by the opportunity to work at Amazon-scale. Key job responsibilities * Innovate and build. Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models that set optimal prices and promotions across Amazon's global catalog. Own models end-to-end — from problem formulation and data analysis through offline evaluation, A/B testing, and production launch. * Build a generalizable science foundation. Develop models and evaluation frameworks designed to scale across merchant programs, product categories, and marketplaces — enabling cross-learning and reducing the ti

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